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Re: Around the League - Playoffs 2018

Originally Posted by GrandWazoo

As much as I love hockey, I have very interest getting my kids into it. It's not just the money but the travel that's crazy. All the games and tournaments are far away from Seattle. One of my friend pretty much has to travel to Canada every weekend for games for his kids. **** that.

At least Seattle teams play in a league, Portland just does tournaments.

Re: Around the League - Playoffs 2018

Originally Posted by GrandWazoo

As much as I love hockey, I have very interest getting my kids into it. It's not just the money but the travel that's crazy. All the games and tournaments are far away from Seattle. One of my friend pretty much has to travel to Canada every weekend for games for his kids. **** that.

Iíve gotten used to the travel. This spring/summerís agenda includes Boston, Buffalo and New Hampshire. His AAA league spans from Connecticut to Maryland but then again, Charlie McAvoy, Sonny Milano and Keith Kincaid played in his league so itís a pretty good level for non-Minnesota and non-Boston area leagues.

Re: Around the League - Playoffs 2018

Mete "impressed" coming out of camp... and overall his defensive game was decent for a 19 year old rookie... but nobody was impressed with his 7 assists. If anything I'd say everyone was disappointed with his offensive output.

Re: Around the League - Playoffs 2018

The reason they kept Mete all year is the same reason they kept playing Joe Morrow crazy minutes over and over: They needed puck moving d-man after getting rid of Markov and Beaulieu and we had the single worst assembly of LHD in the entire NHL. Name me one team that had a worst assembly than Alzner, Mete, Morrow, Schlemko, Davidson, Jerabek, Valiev, Reilly playing on the left side. Shit, I'm not sure there's more than one real NHL caliber player amonst the whole 'lot of them.

Morrow's probably 8th or 9th on Winterpeg's depth chart, Alzner I don't believe is nearly as bad as his play demonstrated, Schlemko's on his 19th team in three weeks (But yeah that's no way judge how good he is as our forgotten comrade BKerr used to say), Davidson, Jerabek, Valiev are Euroleagues, Reilly was a top prospect once upon a time, but his play never translated to the NHL because his offensive output doesn't match his defensive liabilities and I don't think Mete's going to start the year in the NHL next season.

Elite goaltending will hide a lot of a bad team's flaws and make them look a lot better than they truly are. That's why Carey Price is the single most important player to his team in the NHL.